Quotes About Desire

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Ive still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.